[Mailman-Users] Help ! (not work with & symbol)

[LE Van Dong]

  Hi all !

Thanks for all informations .
I corrected a problem with alias file : created new rd list and aliased
r&d to rd . All working well .

Br,
Dong


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Richard Barrett wrote:

> & has special meaning on the command line so you would need to escape it in 
> the aliases, e.g. something like:
> 
>       /var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r\&d
> 
> but in any event using characters that have special meanings in mail list 
> names is just creating problems which are best avoided even if the 
> characters concerned were legal in a mail address.
> 
> If I were you I would pick a list name containing only a-z, 0-9 and hyphen.
> 
> At 17:45 26/07/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> 
> >   Hi all !
> >
> >I created one mailing list ,its name a&b
> >When i post to list (a&b at blabla.com),i got error msg :
> >
> >----------
> >
> ><a&b at blabla.com>: Command died with status 127:
> >     "/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r&d". Command output: sh: d:
> >command
> >     not found Mailman error: post got bad listname: r
> >
> >-----------
> >
> >How can i correct it ?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Dong
> >
> >Notes : -  i need to use & symbol :-(
> >         - debian potato
> >         - mailman 2.0.5
> >
> >
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